Item Summary

An abridgment of Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب زهر الرياحين في رياض الصالحين / تأليف عبد الله بن ابراهيم ميرغني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Zahr al-rayāḥīn fī Riyāḍ al-ṣāliḥīn / taʼlīf ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm Mīrghanī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1061H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc08613057p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (145 x 90) mm bound to 212 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1901.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. The work was composed 1177/1763-4.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 209 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition; folio 1 damaged.
Origin: Probably from the early XlXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا له به منه عليه والشكر لله مولى العالمين شكرا به له فيه اليه احمده ان جعل الهدى القويم ...
Colophon: قال عبد الله ميرغني کان الله له فرغت من تأليفه ضحوة الجمعة عام سبع وسبعين ومائة وألف واستغفر الله العظيم واتوب اليه
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants surrounded by dots and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Violet paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
429

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9905c2d0-15b2-444f-9ac9-3948a24419cd/manifest